Embraces, cries and bitter tears. Young women are being stopped from entering universities in Afghanistan and despair is spreading.
Armed guards prevented the women from entering university campuses in the capital, Kabul, on Wednesday. The brusque rejection comes a day after the Taliban issued a ban on higher education for women, in stark contrast to earlier promises not to jeopardize women’s right to higher education.
Many of the ported women, wearing obligatory headscarves, stood gathered in groups and conversed with each other.
See interviews with students Sahar and Setara in the clip above.